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Any regular reader of Drive On knows we have a particular soft spot for the original Ford Mustang. It was our first car.

So clearly, next year's 50th anniversary of the original pony car is a very big deal.

That's where Kathy Miller comes in. Miller, of Boardman, Ohio, is on a mission to track down as many original owners of 1964-and-a-half Mustangs as she can or their descendants. So far, she's tracked down 24.

That sounds like a pretty impressive start to us, but she figures she has a long way to go, considering 121,538 Mustangs were produced prior to August 1964. If you're an original Mustang owner and want to be found, e-mail her at originalowner@me.com.

And our Mustang? It's a convertible with a 289-cubic-inch V-8, manual transmission, originally painted inferno red with the knock-off style hubcaps, last seen in San Pedro, Calif., from a few blocks away. After several years of happy service, we sold it to a UPS driver for $500 with 151,000 miles on the odometer.

If that sounds too nebulous, here's this: It probably still bears its original California black-and-yellow license plate, PEL 279. If you see it, let us know. Maybe we could end up driving it to Miller's reunion.